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Ohio Supreme Court upholds Revised Code's bifurcation section as constitutional

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JESSICA SHAMBAUGH | Daily Reporter
Published: 02/21/2012

In a 5-2 majority opinion, the Ohio Supreme Court recently upheld as constitutional a section of the Revised Code reformed in 2005 to require state courts hearing tort lawsuits to, upon request, separate trials into two stages for compensatory and punitive damages claims.

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